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New Thunderbird Daily 53.0a1.en-US.win64 forces 12-hour a.m./p.m.

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Hello, I'm in the USA and have my Win7 Ultimate x64 system set to 24-hour time, but the current Daily thunderbird-53.0a1.en-US.win64.installer.exe installs a version with 12-hour a.m./p.m. times for the e-mails. I restart the system daily and there's no change. After I install each new Daily version with same results, I then install a copy of the version from January 7 and I'm immediately back to 24-hour time. I noticed this happened about 2 weeks ago as well, one of the Saturday versions did same but the later versions up to January 7 all were 24-hour time. This also happened without any Win7 updates happening.

I had tried the Super Date Format extension which restores the 24-hour time but loses the "short date/time" format when the e-mail is received on the same day as today (ie., 24-hour time only without any date), but I'd rather just run without it.

This has worked very well for a few years now until very recently. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!

Greg

Hello, I'm in the USA and have my Win7 Ultimate x64 system set to 24-hour time, but the current Daily thunderbird-53.0a1.en-US.win64.installer.exe installs a version with 12-hour a.m./p.m. times for the e-mails. I restart the system daily and there's no change. After I install each new Daily version with same results, I then install a copy of the version from January 7 and I'm immediately back to 24-hour time. I noticed this happened about 2 weeks ago as well, one of the Saturday versions did same but the later versions up to January 7 all were 24-hour time. This also happened without any Win7 updates happening. I had tried the Super Date Format extension which restores the 24-hour time but loses the "short date/time" format when the e-mail is received on the same day as today (ie., 24-hour time only without any date), but I'd rather just run without it. This has worked very well for a few years now until very recently. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance! Greg

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given you are identifying a problem in a pre release version of Thunderbird. A daily developers build actually for testing, the correct approach would be to file a bug noting the issue so it can be fixed before release.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

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Matt said

given you are identifying a problem in a pre release version of Thunderbird. A daily developers build actually for testing, the correct approach would be to file a bug noting the issue so it can be fixed before release. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

If it reproduces in safe mode :) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/safe-mode-thunderbird